Week 5 Lectures Flashcards
(37 cards)
What is the purpose of the Gardner reading?
Purpose was to describe the morphology of human touch.
Highlights skin mechanoreceptors in the somatosensory cortex.
What is touch?
Sensory information about the physical properties of objects. Size, temp, shape, etc.
What is the sense of touch?
occurs when the skin/body is contacted by an external stimulus
What happens as a result from touch?
the skin is indented or stretched
OR the nerves can be destroyed
What are mechanoreceptors?
Receptors in the skin that detect mechanical stimuli (forces) and
translate those forces to electrical signal in the cortex
What are merkel cells?
Merkel cells are mechanoreceptors that are involved in touch and are usually activated by the touching of objects or really fine sensations.
What are the two types of social influences?
information and peer pressure
What is the purpose of nudge chapter 3?
purpose of the paper was to define social influences as nudges and explain how to use social influences in the design of choice architecture
What is peer pressure?
convey that a norm is popular
such as most people prefer X.
What is information?
convey what people do such as what music have people listened to?
What are the two types of nudges?
intentional and unintentional
What is an intentional nudge?
light pushing for people to do something such as don’t mess with teax
What is an unintentional nudge?
Not meaning to push people such as seattle epidemic
What is the purpose of the Werner chapter 4?
The purpose of the chapter was how to take care of a sick person and indicate when a person needs medical intervention
What is behavior?
anything an organism does that involves a response to a stimulus
What constraints behavior?
is constrained by the organism’s structure
What is something that confirms behavior?
can be directly observed by others or indirectly by equipment
What was the monkey stimulus?
<otor responses evoked by electrical brain stimulus to the cerebral cortex.
No visible stimulus was presented. Responses are constrained by monkey structure. The behavior is observable
What is smoking?
organism inhales smoke from cigarette to lungs/mouth
What does smoking require?
smoking requires oral lung, and brain tissue structures
What are observable motor responses?
precision grip, hand/mouth, inhale/exhale
What is a response class?
the series of organism responses that characterize a broader behavior
What makes a response class useful?
To detect when a behavior occurs. To measure it along a dimension. To observe stimulus
What is behavior repertoire?
All behaviors an organism can perform. Given its species inherited traits (morphology)
and given its individual learning history.
